1.Son of the ocean isle ,Where sleep your mighty dead?Show me what high and stately pile.
2.Go,stranger,track the deep;Free,free,the white sail spread!
Wave may not foam nor wild wind sweep Where rest not England’s dead.
3.On Egypt‘s burning plains ,By the pyramid o’erswayed,With fearful power the noon-day reigns,And the palm-trees yield no shade.
4.But let the angry sun From heaven look fiercely red,Unfelt by those whose task is done-There slumber England‘s dead.
5.The hurricane hath might Along the Indian shore,And far by Ganges’banks at night Is heard the tiger‘s roar.
6.But let the sound roll on;It hath no tone of dreadFor those that from their toils are gone-There slumber England’s dead.
7.Loud rush the torrent-floods The western wilds among,And free in green Columbia‘s The hunter’s bow is strung.
8.But let the floods rush on,Let the arrow‘s flight be sped;Why should they reck whose task is done?-There slumber England’s dead.
9.The mountain storms rise high In the snowy Pyrenees ,And toss the pine-boughs through the sky Like rose-leaves on the breeze.
10.But let the storm rage on,Let the forest wreaths be shed;For the Roncesvalles‘field is won-There slumber England’s dead.
11.On the frozen deep‘s repose ’Tis a dark and dreadful hourWhen round the ship the ice-fields close,To chain her with their power.
12.But let the ice drift on,Let the cold blue desert spread;Their course with mast and flag is done-There slumber England‘s dead.
13.The warlike of the isles,The men of field and wave-Are not the rocks their funeral piles ,The seas and shores their graves?
14.Go,stranger,track the deep;Free,free,the white sail spread!
Wave may not foam nor wild wind sweep Where rest not England’s dead.